branch core-updates updated: gnu: coreutils: Disable inotify-dir-recreate test

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     new 6ba1058  gnu: coreutils: Disable inotify-dir-recreate test
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commit 6ba1058df0c4ce5611c2367531ae5c3cdc729ab4
Author: Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me>
AuthorDate: Sat Jun 5 11:22:58 2021 -0400

    gnu: coreutils: Disable inotify-dir-recreate test
    
    This test fails on filesystems where tail detects that it cannot use
    inotify safely. See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47935 for more details.
    
    * gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils)[phases]: Disable
      inotify-dir-recreate tests, quote Hurd substitute* call to reduce
      rebuilds.
---
 gnu/packages/base.scm | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index d30299a..edc4c4a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -378,13 +378,17 @@ used to apply commands with arbitrarily long arguments.")
                        (("/bin/sh") (which "sh")))
                      (substitute* (find-files "tests" "\\.sh$")
                        (("#!/bin/sh") (string-append "#!" (which "sh"))))))
-                 ,@(if (hurd-target?)
-                       `((add-after 'unpack 'remove-tests
-                           (lambda _
-                             (substitute* "Makefile.in"
+                 (add-after 'unpack 'remove-tests
+                   (lambda _
+                     ,@(if (hurd-target?)
+                           '((substitute* "Makefile.in"
                                ;; this test hangs
-                               (("^ *tests/misc/timeout-group.sh.*") "")))))
-                       '()))))
+                               (("^ *tests/misc/timeout-group.sh.*") "")))
+                           '())
+                     (substitute* "Makefile.in"
+                       ;; fails on filesystems where inotify cannot be used,
+                       ;; more info in #47935
+                       (("^ *tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh.*") "")))))))
    (synopsis "Core GNU utilities (file, text, shell)")
    (description
     "GNU Coreutils package includes all of the basic command-line tools that